The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-12-23
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


IT costs the United States $4,000, 600 year to
carry on the war of 1912, even at this late date.
TIE largest COW in Dakota is reported from
Cass county. She stands six feet high at the
shoulders, and though thin in flesh, weighs 1,SO
pounds
DIR. ScHENERLIN of Berlin, has inoculated
dogs with the newly discovered bacillus of can
Ger. So far no cancer symptoms have been de-
veloped,
A NEW sort of horse-race recently took place.
The distance was mile and half The horses
walked the first half-mile, trotted the second,
and ran the last.
THOMAS DUNLAP, who had grocery store at
Reading, Pa, put notice in the window that
William Rooster owed him $4S2, and he is now
being tried for libel.
A HASTINGS CMich.) merchant has caught the
wish-bone craze, and is trading fifty-cent hand
kerchiefs for the wish-bones of turkey gobblers
They are away up on the New York market
AMERICAN TRAMPs are reported plenty in
| Mexico. The citizens of the sister Republic may
start q revolution to turn out the administra-
| ton that SO readily gave way in the Cutting
case.
The venerable John G. Whittier, the Quaker
| poet, has lingering fondness for the trade he
learned as a boy, that of shoe making. He care
fully examines every portion of the shoes he
| wears.
THE United States has just sent Christmas
present of 5000 carp and gold fish to Mexico
This shows a friendly feeling If we had a bone
| to pick with Mexico the shsd species would have
been the gift.
THE high price of coal in Vermont" says the
Boston Transcript, has led one manufacturing
concern, which formerly used 1870 tons week to
| try a mixture of sawdust ard soft coal. The re-
suit is the reduction of their coal bill to twenty
| five tons week"
| If Gladstone belonged in this country we
should probably elect him President as wood
| chopper. We should have wood choppers clubs
and wood choppers battalons, and every poll
| tlcian would carry an AK TO grind, just as he
| does now.
| A WILKEsBARRE, Pa, woman on three diff
ferent occasions last week arose from her bed
and walked about town while asleep. On her
1 third walk she wandered to a cemetery, where
she was found asleep the next morning and
| almost frozen to death.
| AN example of economy was that of Ignatz
| Freund in his Detroit store, who lighted the gas
jets one after another with single match until
it burned his fingers, and then dropped it into
pile of cotton, the result of which was general
panic and damage of 81 800.
| FARMER LIEsMAN, who found spring on his
farm near Holland, Mich, that will make hair
| grow on most anything has sold the COW and
| calf on which he had raised long whiskerS TO
| Chicago museum for S., 800. He will ship some
| of the water to the animals each week.
ONE of the Indiana courts has decided that
| passenger has no right to swear in the cars in
| that State. The decision will be a dead letter
| however, until it is supplemented with another
declaring that passenger has no right to leave
| the door standing open when he enters the car.
LEWIS HENRY PETERSON. recently elected
| Justice of the Peace in Plainfield n. j., is
| good Looking negro, the second colored man
| thus honored in the State. Mr. Peterson is 81
years of age, and his brother Thomas Munday,
| age 81, of Perth Amboy, is said to be the first
| negro to cast his ballot in this country.
| Mrs. DR.. O'DELL, of Paw Paw Mich, didn't
notice that her handsome Maltese mouser was
| in the oven when she closed the stove doors and
| left rousing fire while she stepped over to the
/ neighbours the other day. The cat was done to
! a turn when the lady returned and the odor of
baked cat clings around the premises still.
| A DRUNKEN LABoRER named John Davies, at
| Dowlais, England, on his way home lay down
beside the railroad track so close to the rails
that a train coming along, the engine over
/ and cut off the heel of his boot. When the train
/ stopped and backed up the man was still asleep,
and was indignant at being made to get up and
| go home.
| AN English bankrupt having pleaded that his
failure was due to the default of the govern
| ment of San Salvador in paying it's obligations,
the consul of that country has published card
| announcing that his government has never suS-
J. pended payment, and has no obligations abroad
| except railroad loan, the interest upon which
| is paid promptly.
THE English Board Of Trade has made re.
| port in which it alleges that the number of
paupers in the country now are only 24.7 to the
| 1000, while in 1870 there were 10 to the 1000,
| and that the total number has fallen from 900,-
900 to $4,000. while the population has increased
| by 100000 In London, it is alleged, there are
now only II paupers to the 900 inhabitants.
THE rats have, during the last few months, so
! annoyed the farmers near Washington, Pa, that
| in many places rat hunts" have been INDUCED
| in. The most successful one has just ended
| with big supper at Lone Pine. W. G. Condit
was the captain of one of the sides hunting the
| rats, aud succeeded in killing 1000. The other
/ side, with S. D. Miller as captain, got away with
| 5,462, making total of 12.462
FARMER CHARLES DITrRIcH, near Mount
| Clemens, Mich, had COW die last week in a
very remarkable way. The animal was fed
MIXED as usual in the morning, driven out along
| with the rest of the herd at the customary time
| for water, and to all appearances was Just as
| well. His stock drink at stream which runs
near the barn. The cattle waded into the stream
| and drank and then all returned but this par
| ticular COW, which seemed to indulge longer
| than the rest. After sufficient time had
| elapsed one of the boyS%ent to drive her out
| Sticks and stones made no impression upon the
creature, and finally the boy waded out and
| took her by the horns TO lead her out when ne
| discovered that she was stone dead and stand
| ing up as natural as life.
| P. I. BARNUM was recently offered 81 900 for
| the services of one of his Trakene stations by
Providence gentleman who believed that a cross
between those handsome circus ring horses and
an American roadster would produce a perfect
| saddle horse. The offer was declined. however
| Mr.. Barnum S manager believed that by once put
ting one of the stations into stud service it would
| min him for trick purposes. The half dozen
| stations of this breed which have been with the
1 Barnum show for half dozen years came from
| the stable OF the Emperor William of GERMANY
! They are used by him and his staff for saddle
| horses and for no other purpose. A bond had
! TO be given when the horses were sold to Bar
| mum that they should never be used for
breeding purposes in Europe They may be so
| used here, however, and probably will be in
time. The horses of no merit in point of
| speed, so far as is known. but they have
! stamina, and are as stylish horses as any ever
! bred. having much the same action and car.
| riage as the Arabian.
| The construction of another Alpine tunnel
through the Simplon, as a rival of the successful
| st, Gotbard, has for some time been talked
about In Paris. 1t is estimated that the Simplon
! tunnel would shorten the time between Paris
and Central and Southern Italy by three hours
as compared with the st. Gothard line, and the
gam over the Mont Gents route would be still
greater According to the representations the
length oil the contemplated tunnel would be
I a1m.